Or in such words, not enclitic, as cannot begin a sentence or a verse :
Prom. V. 107. (
Greek characters)
Track. 718. (Greek characters)
Prom. V. 846. (Greek characters)
ŒD. T. 142. (Greek characters)
Soph. Electr. 413. (Greek characters)
In the numerous instances of (Greek characters) so placed, it deserves remark,
that (Greek characters) is always subjoined to its verb, and that with elision, as in
the line quoted. (Yide Porson, xxvi. =28.)
3. Where words like (Greek characters) and (Greek characters) so given, ought in Attic orthography to be written thus : (Greek characters) and (Greek characters):
Phœn. 759. (Greek characters)
Ale. 687. (Greek characters)
(Vide Porson, xxxiv. v. = 31.)
4. And where in the plays of Sophocles, the dative cases plural
of (Greek characters) and(Greek characters) are exhibited as Spondees, thus, (Greek characters), (Greek characters), when that
Tragedian, however strange it may appear, employed those pronouns
in his verse actually as Trochees. In that pronunciation, they are by
some Grammarians written, (Greek characters),(Greek characters), but (Greek characters), (Greek characters), more generally :
Electr. 1328. (Greek characters)
Œd. Col. 25. (Greek characters)
In which two lines (Greek characters) and (Greek characters) would vitiate the metre.
(Vide Porson, xxxv. = 32.)
5. One particular case seems to have created a very needless per-plexity ; namely, where the verse is concluded by a trisyllabic word
with certain consonants initial which do not permit the short vowel
precedent to form a short syllable. (Vide Porson, xxxviii. = 34, 5.)
The following verses, as being supposed to labour under the vicious
termination, are recommended by the Professor to the sagacity of young
Scholars for correction :
Hecub. 717. (Greek characters)
Androm. 347. (Greek characters)
Iph. A. 531. (Greek characters)
(In these verses, also, from Euripides, the very same difficulty, if it be one, is involved :
Bacchæ 1284. (Greek characters)
Electr. 850. (Greek characters))
Here the word preceding the final Cretic must be either a Trochee
or a Spondee. If it is a Trochee, all is well : nothing more need
